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Quartzite from
Loch Borralan Complex, Assynt, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Volcanic Complex
Classification
Type:Quartzite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Loch Borralan Complex, Assynt, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1416171
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1416171:5
GUID (UUID V4):a2059ae9-bf56-48c1-b47d-c63107bb1e53
Nearest other occurrences of Quartzite
5.3km (3.3 miles) Loch Ailsh Complex, North, West and Central Sutherland, Highland, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (chapter)
Relationships between the Loch Ailsh and Borralan alkaline intrusions and thrusting in the Moine Thrust...zone, southern Assynt culmination, NW Scotland M. P. Searle, R. D. Law, J. F. Dewey and M. J. Streule...Relationships between the Loch Ailsh and Borralan alkaline intrusions and thrusting in the Moine Thrust...Thrust zone, southern Assynt culmination, NW Scotland M. P. SEARLE1*, R. D. LAW2, J. F. DEWEY3 & M. J. STREULE1...Sciences, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK 2 Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg
Book (chapter)
Caledonian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain Compiled and edited by D. Stephenson British Geological Survey...Edinburgh P. Stone British Geological Survey, Edinburgh and W.J. Wadsworth University of Manchester, Manchester...mid-Silurian alkaline intrusions of the North-west Highlands of Scotland Introduction INTRODUCTION If 9...alkaline igneous plutonic complexes and a suite of associated dykes and sills of late Caledonian age occur...parallel to the Moine Thrust in the NW Highlands of Scotland (Figure 7.1). This alkaline magmatism represents
Book
Macgregor and Phemister's Geological Excursion Guide to the ASSYNT DISTRICT OF SUTHERLAND byM.R.W. Johnson...Johnson and I. Parsons Edinburgh Geological Society .--1$.u~rk: Q t;; .Zh I /2 no: Location :...returned immediately it is asked for by the Librarian, and in any case by the last date stamped below. NATURAL...GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION GUIDE TO THE ASSYNT DISTRICT OF SUTHERLAND NATURAL SCIENCES LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Geological Society c/o Grant Institute of Geology West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW (c 1979 Edinburgh
Report (edition)
Geo·logy ■ I of Scotland FOURTH EDITION Front cover Suilven Sutherland. 'Rocky Ridge and boggy hollow~...hillside beyond the lock. Below it, unmoved Cambrian quartzite (forming the prominent cliffs) rests unconformably...sequence. We look north-east from near Kylesku across Loch Glencoul to Aird na Loch. (D2820) (frontispiece)...The Northern Highlands of Scotland FOURTH EDITION G S Johnstone, BSc and W Mykura, DSc NOTTINGHAM,...available from the BGS Sales Desks at Nottingham and Edinburgh; see contact details below or shop online
Report (issue)
mineralisation in the Loch Ailsh alkaline igneous complex, north-west Scotland Department of Trade and Industry ...in the Loch Ailsh alkaline igneous complex, north-west Scotland M H Shaw, A G Gunn, KE Rollin and MT Styles...the Loch Ailsh alkaline igneous complex, north-west Scotland M H Shaw, A G Gunn, K E Rollin and M T Styles...was prepared for the Department of Trade and Industry Maps and diagrams in this report use topography based...G, Rollin, KE, and Styles, MT. 1994. Platinum-group element mineralisation in the Loch Ailsh alkaline
Journal (issue)
BOROLANITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN TRACT OF THE BORRALAN COMPLEX, SCOTLAND A. R. WOOLLEY...BOROLANITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN TRACT OF THE BORRALAN COMPLEX, SCOTLAND BY ALAN...corresponding to the Departments of the Museum, and an Historical series. Parts will appear at irregular...will contain about three or four hundred pages, and will not necessarily be completed within one calendar...BOROLANITES AND ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN TRACT OF THE BORRALAN COMPLEX, SCOTLAND By A. R.
Book (edition)
LlBR-ARY WHITMAN f;OJ I l[ii • , GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND GEOLOGY OF • SECOND EDITION Edited by G....Geology of Scotland '' A Halsted Press book." Includes bibliographies and index. I. Geology-Scotland. I. Craig...QE264.G43 1983 554.11 83-12223 Design, typography and lay-out by: T. L. Jenkins, Edinburgh Printed in Great...AUTHORS Xl PREFACE and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I. THE GROWTH AND ST RUCTURE OF SCOTLAND The formation of the...Caledonides Ophiolites and flysch Granites Late Caledonian Molasse and structure Sedimentation and volcanicity The
Report (issue)
minerals of Scotland – bedrock of Scotland's economic development. Information Management and Services Internal...INTERNAL REPORT IR/04/001 Economic minerals of Scotland bedrock of Scotland's economic development. R...F. MacTaggart, T. Cullen, J. Rayner Key words Scotland, mineral resources Bibliographical reference R... Cullen, J. Rayner. 2004 Economic minerals of Scotland - bedrock of Scotland's economic development....available from the BGS Sales Desks at Nottingham and Edinburgh; see contact details below or shop online
Book
7073 0257 9 Text set in 9/10 pt VIP Times, printed and bound in Great Britain at The Pitman Press, Bath... NICHOLSON, R. Caledonian correlations: Britain and Scandinavia H1GGINS, A. K. & PHILLIPS, W. E. A. East...Canadian Appalachians into the Caledonides of Britain and Ireland 2. 33 BASEMENT-COVER RELATIONSHIPS WATSON...Britain 93 SANDERS,I. S. Observations on eclogite- and granulite-facies rocks in the basement of the Caledonides...Regional geochemistry of the Northern Highlands of Scotland 117 BREWER,M. S., BROOK,M. & POWELL,D. Dating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(fenitized) quartzites from the Borralan Complex, Scotland A. R. WOOLLEY, R. F. SYMES, and C. J. E L L I O T T Department...three localities around the Borralan alkaline igneous complex. Chemical and electron-probe analyses of...of amphiboles, pyroxenes, micas, and feldspars are given. Early-formed amphiboles are caIcic, but these...of Ti, Fe~+q- Fe 3+, Mg, A1, K, and a more variable increase of Ca and Na atoms, at the expense of Si...atoms. The simple composition of the unaltered quartzite allows the accurate calculation of bulk changes
Journal (issue)
The Joumal of Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain 27 Greville Street...Green, North West - D. M. Brady, Scottish - B. Jackson, South East - C.H. Winter, South West - R.M. Slater... Multi-star quartzes from Sri Lanka Dr Karl Schmetzer1 and Maximilian Glas2 1. Taubenweg 16, D-85238 Petershausen...light bands may be present in quartzes with more complex multi-star networks. 321 Introduction A steriated...parallel to the basal plane (see e.g. Goldschmidt and Brauns, 1911; Kalkowsky, 1915). The centre of this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MANTLE-DERIVED CALEDONIAN SYENITE BY METASEDIMENT ANATEXIS AND MAGMA MIXING M.B. FOWLER* Department o[ Geology,...(Great Britain) (Received September 25, 1986; revised and accepted March 2, 1988) Abstract Fowler, M.B., 1988...mantle-derived Caledonian syenite by metasediment anatexis and magma mixing. Chem. Geol., 69: 1-16. This paper presents...the Caledonian Glen Dessarry syenite (northern Scotland, U.K.) has been variably contaminated with material...trace-element abundances and ratios similar to those of the central leucosyenite, and island-arc high-K or
Report (issue)
Reconnaissance Programme 1990 H W Haslam, D G Cameron and AD Evans BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Technical...Geological Survey on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry Compilers H W Haslam, MA, PhD, MIMM This...the Department of Trade and Industry D G Cameron, BSc A D Evans, BSc Maps and diagrams in this report... thanks are due to Dr J A Plant, Mr J H Bateson and other staff of the Applied Geochemistry Group, to...(Regional Geophysics), Dr D J Fettes, Dr M J Gallagher and Dr R C Scrivener (Land Survey). Thanks are also due
Book
Glaciation; deposits of till, morainic drift and fluvioglacial sand and gravel I Basic dykes TERTIARY • CRETACEOUS...felsite, microdiorite and lamprophyre dykes DEVONIAN Ratagain Plutonic Complex (425 ± 3 Ma) Felsic porphyrite...microdiorite and appinite minor intrusions Caledonian Orogeny: polyphase deformation and metamorphism...CAMBRIAN Pegmatite and ap]ite Intrusion of basic sills PROTEROZOIC Metamorphism and deformation (750-1000...siltstones and mudstones ARCHAEAN to Evolution of the Lewisian complex, metamorphosed igneous and sedimentary
Report (issue)
Geometries and Meclianisms of Thrusting, with special reference to the AppElsciu&ns Edited by Gautam...Gautam Mitra and Steven Wojtal Geometries and Mechanisms of Thrusting, with special reference to the Appalachians...employment. All materials subject to this copyright and included in this volume may be photocopied for the...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Geometries and mechanisms of thrusting, with special reference to...cm.—(Special paper; 222) Includes bibliographies and index. ISBN 0-8137-2222-5 1. Thrust faults (Geology)—Appalachian
Report (issue)
Nottingham NG12 5GG. Telephone Plumtree [060 77] 5261 and 4041 1 Ring Road Halton, Leeds LS15 81 Q. Telephone...Telephone Leeds [0532] 605343. Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA. Telephone 031-667 1000...Belfast BT9 6BS. Telephone Belfast [0232] 666595 and 666752. Hydrogeology Unit, Maclean Buildings, Crovvmarsh...Environment Research Cot1ncil, Polaris House_, North ,Star venue, Swindon, \Viltshire SN2 1 EU. Telepho...Survey of Great Britain and the Geological Museum with Overseas Geological Surveys and is a constituent body
 
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